You know what I love about Professor Colin Pillinger, the man behind the Beagle 2 mission to Mars? Here he is, sending incredibly complicated and expensive technological marvels into space and, where you might expect to see a slick and polished Oxbridge professor, what you actually get is this big cuddly-looking bloke with the best west country accent this side of Phil Harding.
Anyway, half of Blur – the Alex James/Dave Rowntree half – turned up today to have a play at Jodrell Bank for some reason not made explicitly clear on the News at Ten. I think it was just to make sure that we didn't forget that Beagle 2 is still up there, still on it way to Mars and has only 45 days before it finally arrives. Seems only yesterday that it took off – not called Mars Express for nothing, I guess.
Ah, I love British science. We do it so much better than everyone else. I just wish we did it more often.
There have been some fairly nice scientific breakthroughs by the Brittish in the past… Not much over here in the Netherlands, apart from waterworks-related…
The microscope (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek) and the lens-telescope (The one Galileo Galilei looked through was of Dutch making)
Well really that's all I can think of…
What in the world are weevils?
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Bramski [ungwendil@yahoo.co.uk]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1110_031110_herringfarts.html
To strengthen my point, it were ENGLISH scholars who made this amazing discovery: herrings communicate to eachother by FARTING.
NO Dutchmanhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1110_031110_herringfarts.html
Only the English.
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Bram [ungwendil@yahoo.co.uk]
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